From Self-Service to Self-Driving: How Agentic AI Will Transform Analytics in the Next 3 Years

Imagine starting your workday with an alert not from a human analyst, but from an AI agent. While you slept, this agent sifted through last night’s sales data, spotted an emerging decline in a key region, and already generated a mini-dashboard highlighting the issue and recommending a targeted promotion. No one asked it to; it acted on its own. This scenario isn’t science fiction or some distant future; it’s the imminent reality of agentic AI in enterprise analytics. Businesses have spent years perfecting dashboards and self-service BI, empowering users to explore data on their own. However, in a world where conditions are constantly changing, even the most advanced dashboard may feel excessively slow. Enter agentic AI: the next frontier where intelligent agents don’t just inform decisions; they make and even execute decisions autonomously. Over the next 1–3 years, this shift toward AI-driven “autonomous BI” is ...